Addresses Quote by Gary Bettman

Major League Baseball's labor negotiations involve two paradoxes. The players' union's primary objective is to protect the revenues of a very few very rich…

— George Will

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.

— Willie Mays

Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.

— Nate Silver

Baseball isn't a business; it's more like a disease.

— Walter O'Malley

We, in the business world, invest our money to make a profit. Sports teams make a good profit. That's the way the system should…

— Norman Braman

In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.

— Jackie Robinson

Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime,…

— John Thorn

Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.

— Philip K. Wrigley

The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.

— Fay Vincent

Sports is such a cyclical thing; it's often feast or famine. But what you try and do as an owner is build a winning…

— Paul Allen

Baseball is a business. Sure, we fans are wistful dreamers who fantasize about glory on the diamond, but to the people who hold the…

— Tom Morello

Professional sports is a business.

— Lynn Swann